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INDEX 



[Nature, May 30, 1878 



Technical Education, Prof. Huxley on, 97 



Technical University, the Proposed, 154 



Teheran, Gold in, 115 



Telegraphy : Telegraphic Warnings in Mines, 16 ; without 

 Wires, 153; Telegraphs in Berlin, 251; the Society of 

 Telegraphic Engineers, 277 ; Granfeld's Apparatus, 292 ; 

 Social Electrical Nerves, 305, 346 ; and the Herring Fishery, 

 351 ; Telegraphic Warning Apparatus, 351 



Telephone, the : 48, 135, 379 ; in Germany, 52, 71, 91 ; and 

 the Post Office, 109 ; German Postal Regulations for, 131 ; 

 Prof. Bell's Lecture on, 131 ; Telephonic Alarum, Dr. 

 W. C. Rontgen, 164, 181 ; Experiments between Dublin 

 and Holyhead, 170; Prof. Barrett on the, 193; James 

 M. Romanis on a T>itw Form of, 201 ; Telephone without 

 Magnetism, W. J. Millar, 242 ; its Use in Warfare, 25 1 ; 

 Demonstration of Currents originated by the Voice in 

 Bell's Telephone, ¥. J. M. Page, 283 ; Experiments with 

 the, 292, 310, 342; W. 11. Preece on the, 295; W. Ack- 

 royd on the Mechanism of, 330 ; the Telephone as an 

 Instrument of Precision, Prof. Geo. Forbes, 343 ; Telegraphic 

 Warning Apparatus, 351 ; and the Post Office, 352 ; and 

 the Telegraph, 372 ; in China, 392 ; Action of the, on a 

 Capillary Electrometer, 395 ; as a Means of Measuring the 

 Speed of High Breaks, J. E. H. Gordon, 424 ; the Henry 

 Telephone, 437 ; in Spain, 437 ; Application of, for Testing 

 the Hearing, 475 ; Signalling by the, 491 ; a Mercury Tele- 

 phone, 491 ; Early Electric Telephony, Prof. W. F. Barrett, 



Telescope, the Modern, J. Norman Lockyer, 66, 125, 188, 225 



Tempel's Comet of Short Period, 408 



Temperature ; Nocturnal Increase of, with Elevation, Dr. E. 



Bonavia, loi ; Average Annual, at Earth's Surface, D. 



Trail, 202; of November, 1877, 249; Temperatures, Cumu- 

 lative, 308, 322, 448, 486 ; the Sense of, 372 ; Underground, 



Prof. J. D. Everett, 476 

 Tenby : Mr. Smith's Collection from the Caves, 212 ; Local 



Museum at, 391 

 Terrestrial Globe, a Self- Moving, 71 

 Terrestrial Magnetism, Prof. W. Le Roy Broun, 281 

 Terrestrial Magnetism and Sun-spots, Prof. Piazzi Smyth, 220 ; 



A.' W. Downing, 242 ; B. G. Jenkins, 259 ; J. Allan Broun, 



F.R.S., 262, 280; Joas Capello, 488 

 Texas, the Agricultural Ants of, 433 

 Thermal Conductivity, Prof. P. G. Tait, 480 

 Thermodynamics, on the Diffusion of Matter in Relation to the 



Second Law of, S, Tolver Preston, 31 

 "Thermodynamics," R. Wormell's, 25; Prof. Tait's, Prof. 



Clerk Maxwell, F.R.S., 257, 278 

 Thermopiles, Relative Value of, 437 

 Thierleben, Brehm's, 41 

 Thiers (M.), his Work on Trigonometry, 16 

 Thompson (Prof. Sylvanus P.), Faraday's "Experimental 



Researches," 304, 361 ; the Acoustical Properties of Soap- 

 Films, 486 

 Thomson's " Sizing of Cotton Goods," 4 

 Thomson (J. Stuart), Mimicry in Birds, 361 

 .Thomson (Dr. Thomas, F.R.S.), Death of, 513 

 Thomson (Sir William, F.R.S.), Compass Adjustment in Iron 



Ships, 331, 352, 387 

 Thomson (Sir Wyville, F.R.S.), "The Voyage of the 



Challenger" — the Atlantic, 145, 185 

 Thorpe (Prof. T. E., F.R.S.), Note on the Liquefaction of 



Air, and of the so-called Permanent Gases, 384 

 Thunderstorms : the Law and Origin of, 362 ; in Iceland, 471; ; 



Artificial, 515 

 Thuret's Garden at Antibes, 351 

 Thyme and Marjoram, Fertilisation in, 127 

 Tibet, Notes on, 132 ; M. Prshvalsky's Exploration of, 153 

 Tides, High, Prediction of, 38, 45, 58, loi 

 Titan, Transit of the Shadow of, across Saturn, 105 

 Toads, Change of Habits in, Wordsworth Donisthorpe, 242 

 Tomlmson (C, F.R.S.), Fluid Films, 61 ; Diffusion Figures in 



Liquids, 102 '^ 



Tomlinson (Herbert), the Telephone, 380 

 Tornado in Chester County, U.S., 362 

 Toronto, Earthquake near, 90 

 Torpedo Warfare, Modern, 50 

 Torpedoes, 361 



Tortoises, Gigantic Land, Dr. Giinther, F.R.S., 483 

 Toucy, Belfry at, struck by Lightning, 392 



Towering of Wounded Birds, Chas. Dixon, 45 



Tracheal System, Palmen on the Morphology of the, 284, 340 



Trail (D,), Average Annual Temperature at Earth's Surface, 



202 

 Training Colleges, Science in, 262 

 Trajectories of Shot, Rev. Francis Bashforth, 401, 506 ; W. 



D. Niven, 466 

 Transatlantic Longitudes, J. E. Hilgard, 244 

 "Transcaucasia and Ararat," J. Bryce, 25 

 Transit Circle, the New, at the Paris Observatory, 165 

 Transit of Venus, English Report on, I ; French Reports of, 



69 ; German Expedition, 392 ; the Transit of 1882, 507 

 Travel, Educational, 324 

 Trevelyan Rocker, Mechanical Analysis of the, Samuel H. 



Frisbee, 242 

 Tritoma, Bees Killed by, Alfred R. Wallace, 45 

 Trollope (Anthony), South Africa, 463 

 Troubitzkoy (Prince Pierre), Eucalyptus, 10 

 "Troy and its Remains," Dr. Schliemann's, 397 

 Trunk Engine, Batchelor's Patent Working Drawing of, 160 

 Tubingen, University Statistics, 354 

 Tuckey and Stanley — The Yallala Rapids on the Congo, Dr. J. 



Rae, 62 

 Tuckwell (Rev. W.), and Taunton School, 16; Presentation to, 



214 ; the Headmasters on Science Teaching, 317 

 Tuning Foi-ks, Prof. McLeod's Experiments on, 55 

 Tunnel, the Proposed British Channel, 109 

 Tupman (Capt.), on the Meteor of December 6, 1877, 152 : the 



Great Detonating Meteor of November 23, 1877, 246 

 Turbot and Soles, Exportation to Massachupetts, 311 

 Turkoman Greyhounds, 434 

 Tycho Brahe's Star of 1572, 129 

 Tyndall (Dr., F.R.S.), Fog-signals, 456 

 Tyrol, Anthropology and Ethnology of South, 438 



Underground Monster, a New, 325 



Underground Railways in Paris, 492 



Underground "J emperature, Prof. J. D. Everett, 476 



United States : American Science, 18, 39 ; the Smithsonian 

 Institution, 18, 39; the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, 37 ; Ethnology of the, 53 ; the Johns 

 Hopkins Scientific Association, 113 ; Geological Work of the 

 U.S. Survey under Prof. Hayden, during the Summer of 

 1877, 129; Lexington University, 175; Geological Survey 

 of, 192; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 

 199 ; Entomology in America, 229 ; Extension of Volun- 

 teer Weather Service in the, 248 ; Tornado in Chester 

 County, Penn., 362 ; Atlas of Colorado, 371 ; Prof. Hay- 

 den's Expedition, 351; Harvard College Observatory, 363 ; 

 the Geological Survey, 409 ; Cliff-dwellers in the, 409 ; 

 American Chemical Society, 475 ; Survey of New York, 

 508 ; Proposed Catalogue of the Plants of North America, 

 514. See also America, New York, Philadelphia, &c. 



University and Educational Intelligence, 19, 39, 55, 74, 95, 114, 

 134. 154. 175. 194, 214, 23s, 254, 27s, 294, 314, 334, 354, 

 374» 393, 415, 459, 478, 497, Si7 



University, Proposed New, 478 



Upsala, University Statistics, 55, 478 



Uranian Satellites, 323, 363 



Variable Nebulje, 306 



Variable Stars, 163, 210, 288; R Aquarii, 231 ; Pigott's Ob- 

 servations of, 323 

 Valence or Atomicity, Discovery of the Law of, 309 

 Vaux (W. S. W.), the Greek Cities and Island of Asia Minor, 



Venus Transit, English Report on the, I ; French Reports of, 

 69 ; German Expedition, 392 ; the Transit of -1882, 507 



Verne (Jules), the Works of, 197 



Venezuela, Dr. Sachs on, 250 



Vibrations, Experiments on, 194 



Vibrations of a Flame, Experiments on, 54 



Vibrations of Solid Bodies, M. Dubois on, 330 



Vicars (G. Rayleigh), Acoustical Effects of Atmospheric 

 Pressure, 244 



Victoria Institute, 136, 216, 296, 416, 520 



Vienna : University Intelligence, 55 ; Academy of Sciences, 

 116, 176, 196, 276, 296, 376, 500; Vienna Geographical 

 Society, 211 ; Temperature of, 249; Society for the Protec- 

 tion of Animals, 293 



